While he was not identic to Lewis Carroll, he did reference the Humpty Dumpty fondness for using words to mean whatever one feels like making them mean, without reference to common usage. He didn't like it, and I suspect Lewis Carroll didn't like it either, since his Humpty Dumpty comes across as a satirical figure.
Now, some like to attack C. S. Lewis too, and here is a reference or two about a biography which is not very accurate:
A Pilgrim in Narnia : A.N. Wilson’s C.S. Lewis: A Mythology
Posted on February 11, 2019
https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2019/02/11/a-n-wilsons-c-s-lewis-a-mythology/
You can see a list of errata by Kathryn Lindskoog here.
And "here" is this link:
Into the Wardrobe – a C. S. Lewis website : A. N. Wilson Errata
by Kathryn Lindskoog
http://cslewis.drzeus.net/papers/wilson-errata/
It can be noted that A. N. Wilson means Andrew Norman Wilson, so, the references to "Ann Wilson" at the end are so to speak a reply to his own sloppiness in getting facts correct./HGL
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